I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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I paint with my back to the world
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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